The developer and mobile advertising technology world breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after Apple announced it would postpone new privacy restrictions that promised to upend the way advertising works on iPhone apps. The official announcement came after The Information had reported the story. Apple had planned to strictly limit READ MORE >
The screen world is its own. It can be agonizing and overwhelming, but also connecting. Even before these times, researchers imagined a different approach to technology – tangible interfaces. Tangible interfaces are interfaces that have broken out of the screen and live with us; in this quarantined world, it could READ MORE >
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic doesn’t lessen the importance of networking. The ability to network in order to develop, or make new contacts, is another area of business that has been dramatically impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. People can still build meaningful and useful relationships at home by finding ways to READ MORE >
The Avengers saga as we know it came to an end in April with “Endgame” (sort of), but Tony Stark isn’t done rescuing humanity just yet. Robert Downey Jr. took a page out of his beloved character’s playbook this week by announcing a coalition to clean up the Earth at READ MORE >
Snapchat has long been known for its fun and unique filter abilities, and it perhaps made its biggest splash yet a couple of weeks ago. Users had a blast using the new gender-swapping filter, which makes female faces look more male and vice versa. The platform had recently created a READ MORE >
On Monday, Elon Musk did what he does best: make a splashy announcement about cool technology, with a goal that’s perhaps too ambitious. He introduced investors to a new artificial intelligence chip that will apparently help Tesla cars drive themselves by the end of 2019. Musk said that every Tesla READ MORE >
If you ask Dr. Katie Bouman, she’ll humbly tell you that it was a team effort – and it certainly was. But there’s no denying how impactful the 29-year-old was in generating the world’s first image of a black hole, which was released by NASA this week. Bouman, a computer READ MORE >
As if this week’s college admissions scandal wasn’t enough, the social media realm gave people more reason to be upset, as Facebook and Instagram experienced historically bad outages on Wednesday. For nearly an entire day (which is the longest such time period in Facebook’s history), users worldwide were having difficulty not READ MORE >
Snapchat’s growth continues to fizzle. In its prime, Snapchat was at the forefront of social media. Billions of users logged on to send their trademark disappearing-in-10-seconds photos to their friends. However, for the first time in the platform’s history, they are losing daily active users. According to PCMAG.com “Snap Inc’s latest READ MORE >
Canada builds first-ever electronic gaming stadium. Canada has welcomed a new stadium specially designed for esports, the state of the art arena is set to be completed in 2019 and upon completion will be the first ever e-gaming stadium ever to be built internationally. But what exactly are esports and READ MORE >